PHIL CAMPBELL -- More than 450 volunteers worked all day on Saturday to build a new playground at Phil Campbell Elementary School to replace the one destroyed by a killer tornado on April 27.

Kaboom, a non-profit organization, and the Walt Disney Co. partnered to bring the 2,500-square-foot playground, an edible garden, basketball courts and shade shelters to the school in the Franklin County community.

Volunteers hauled 135 cubic yards of mulch, mixed 280 bags of concrete, used 26 gallons of paint to create checkers, paint walkways to the playground area and constructed the playground in one day.

A special memorial will be unveiled in memory of teacher Patricia Gentry and students Ethan Knox and Edgar Mojica, all of whom died in the EF5 tornado that struck on April 27.

A total of 26 people died in Phil Campbell when the tornado hit the community.